HERO FRAMED
Art
Finnegan Travers is bringing traditional darkroom techniques into the light
transform and transcend
Steve McQueen’s new exhibition immerses you in light and bass
Euphoric escape
Christian Stemmler photographed the underground dance floors of 90s Berlin
Then and now
Collier Schorr captures portraits of NYC’s queer scene for legendary gay magazine Der Eigene
FW visit
Acne Studios has opened a gallery in Paris
Wednesday Art Idol
August Sander: the pioneering German documentary photographer who captured the face of a nation
Sarah Lucas: interrogating gender norms through euphemism and innuendo
Claude Cahun: the French surrealist who inspired Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin
Helen Levitt: a pioneer of street photography who captured the theatre of daily life in New York
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with studies in human flesh
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Gerhard Richter: the German master of abstraction reconciling memories of war
SUPERFLEX: the Danish public art collective re-drawing lines of civic power
Forensic Architecture: the architectural detective agency uncovering global human rights abuses
Gillian Wearing: the Turner Prize-winning artist peeling back layers of the human psyche
Back on display
Charlie Porter on rediscovering the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt
Let it grow
Documenting Lithuania’s surreal and ritualistic longest hair festival
Book in
Celine are giving away free tickets to Wolfgang Tillmans’ Centre Pompidou exhibition
Joyride
Temporary Pleasure have transformed the Barbican car park into a boy racer club
80s Time Capsule
These rediscovered photos document growing up in the North of England during Thatcher’s Britain
Crystallizing Identity
“Being connected to others is a part of being human” – Chiharu Shiota on creating art from Swarovski crystals
In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
This VR experience transports you to the middle of an 80s acid rave
Read, Frame, Type, Film,
MUBI’s first book explores the relationship between film and typography
Bornsick
Movement artist Lewis Walker is redefining the queer body
Time Stands Still
“When I finish a picture I’m never interested in what it means” – Jeff Wall’s photography forms ambiguous scenes
Universal existence
“Moments of touch and intimacy” – Isaac Andrews’ new show is a love letter to relationships
In bloom
“Our souls need it” – floral artist Hamish Powell on the power of nature
End of an era
Daniel Weiss’ new photo book documents the last of the New York pay phones
Aries Arise Archive
This new Aries book is the definitive document of London’s cult streetwear brand
Saturated worlds
“I see my images as film stills from a movie that doesn’t exist” – Miles Aldridge on depicting the hyper-surreal
